American Classic – Bücher, CDs, LPs und mehr, Seite 10

Francisco E Robles

Coalition Literature

"In a series of incisive readings, Francisco E. Robles provides a literary history of midcentury US multiethnic literature, tracing the shift from coalitional aesthetics to multiculturalism by focusi…

Great American Orchestras

Christine Schäfer, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Boston Symphony Orchestra, New York Philharmonic Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra, Daniel Barenboim, Leonard Bernstein, Pierre Boulez, …

Mary Ruefle

The Book

**Following the acclaimed Dunce , which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, comes Mary Ruefle's latest prose publication The Book,now in softcover.True to its bold title, The Book affirms Mary Ruefle's…

Matthew Oliver,

Reading Length in Fantasy Fiction

Reframing debates surrounding long narratives to explore their impact, this book develops a critical vocabulary for discussing the formal, social, and political affordances of length and duration in fanta…

Andrea Long Chu

Authority

Many worry that criticism is suffering from a crisis of authority. In a world where everyone's a critic, what is criticism for? Since her canonical essay "On Liking Women," the Pulitzer Prize-wi…

Helen Vendler

Inhabit the Poem: Last Essays

In 13 essays, the great poetry critic offers her final word on the poets who have meant the most to her, from Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson to Wallace Stevens and Sylvia PlathHelen Vendler was our grea…

Mark Twain

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

One of the best-known classics of American literature, Mark Twain's indelible novel of boyhood, friendship, and adventure.Few works of fiction are more known and beloved for keenly documenting the triumph…

Julie London

Julie Is Her Name-The Complete Sessions

Die sinnlichste Stimme in der Geschichte des Jazz. Die CD enthält Julie Londons komplette »Julie Is Her Name«-Sessions, bei welchen sie lediglich von Gitarre und Bass unterstützt wurde. Eine davon war ihr…

Douglas Coupland's Literature and Art

The first collection of scholarly essays about major works across fiction, non-fiction, and visual art by cult writer and artist Douglas Coupland, this book looks at Coupland's work and its interest in to…

John Rieder

Truth, Lies, and Speculative Fiction

An exploration of contemporary speculative fiction's power to intervene in social, political, and environmental crises, this book demonstrates how the genre acts as a defense in the navigation of propagat…

Megan Milks

Mega Milk

A sparkling, funny, and often wrenching portrait-in-essays on the dairy industry, queer intimacy, family, fluidity, whiteness, and cows.For decades, Megan Milks has wondered what it means to share a last …

Daniel A Nelson

Seeing to See

Seeing to See focuses on two American authors who are notoriously hard to classify: Emily Dickinson and Henry David Thoreau. Dickinson proves challenging due to her short and obscure poems and Thoreau due…

Every Place on the Map Is Disabled

An anthology of poems and craft essays by and celebrating Disabled writersDeclaring that Disabled people exist, innovate, thrive, and persevere, Every Place on the Map Is Disabled imagines the world we de…

Doris Lessing

The Grass Is Singing

"There is passion here, a piercing accuracy, a rare sensitivity and power. . . . One can only marvel."---New York TimesSet in Southern Rhodesia under white rule, Doris Lessing's first novel, now…

The Cleaving

The first and only book to gather the voices and perspectives of Vietnamese diasporic authors from across the globe.Edited by Isabelle Thuy Pelaud, Lan P. Duong, and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Viet Tha…

Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990)

Fancy Free Ballet

Sao Paulo Symphony Orchestra, Marin Alsop

Raritan on War

On War gathers together some of the finest writing on that troubling subject published in Raritan between 2003 and 2022. The editors, Jackson Lears and Karen Parker Lears, have selected work that typifies…

Amy Fish

Writing Themselves Into the Movement

"Between 1967 and 1972 at least thirty anthologies by African American, Latinx, Asian American, and Native American children came out of adult-led writing workshops and classrooms. These anthologies …

Art Pepper (1925-1982)

Gettin' Together! + 4 Bonus Tracks